I think I have automatic updates set for my Windows PC, but it never seems to tell me there’s an update, and my experience with Windows and Microsoft is that there are updates typically every week or so. Is there some way i can manually run a Windows Update to see if there’s anything pending or available for my Win7 laptop?
The power of e-mail is one of the strongest ways to communicate a message to someone online, especially within the business world. Many businesses (especially ecommerce-based) utilize e-mail as the sole method of communication between their customers and themselves. With this in mind, businesses need a robust e-mail product to keep up with the high demand of e-mail, and Microsoft provides this product called Microsoft Outlook.
If you have been in the computing world for a long time, many of you will know of the MS-DOS command of chkdsk. This is a tool in MS-DOS that has been around since the early Windows 3.x days that thoroughly scans your hard drive, and can fix and report any logical file system errors. While chkdsk is running, the program can also check for physical issues, such as bad sectors, and also attempt to recover information that may be damaged associated with the bad sectors that it finds.
Do you remember about 10 years ago when you could change the faceplate of your cell phone? The faceplate that you changed was from the original/default look of a cell phone to a specific thing. You can also perform this alteration on your browser. Below, I will show you how to add a different theme to your Firefox web browsing session.
If you are familiar with the range of various Microsoft Windows distributions, you will notice that Windows XP is cosmetically different than its previous versions, giving the user three new color choices: Blue, Green, and Silver. If you would like to change the look of your desktop back to the way it was in Windows 98 and ME, I will show you how in this post’s tutorial.
In today’s society, we all know that we as human beings are not perfect. Operating systems for computers are the same way, basically because a whole lot of people and businesses use them in many different situations and with various hardware combinations. With this in mind, Windows (all distributions) will sometimes encounter issues communicating with this hardware and will report these issues in a screen commonly known as the “Blue Screen of Death (BSOD).”
The Start menu in Windows is basically the main area where users can access different programs on their company (if they are not already placed on the Windows Desktop), and it is also one of the most-clicked areas within the Microsoft Windows operating system. The Start menu has cosmetically changed throughout the years since its original appearance in Windows 95, and even in the latest version of Windows 7, it has changed even more.
If you are a schedule-oriented person, and want to have certain events and happenings to be performed at a specific time of the day, Microsoft Windows allows you to schedule specific programs or tools within your operating system with this premise in mind. All versions of Microsoft Windows (95/98, 2000, XP, Vista, and 7) provide a way for the user to schedule a program at a specific time or date. In this tutorial post, I will be showing you how to access the Scheduled Tasks program in Microsoft Windows XP.
Dave, I have a new PC that is running Microsoft Windows 7 and I really like it, but I’ve got a problem: a few of the programs I used for data analysis in my job haven’t been updated since the days of Windows XP and I can’t run them on Win7 at all. Can I install Windows XP and dual boot or otherwise have the best of both worlds?
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Ever since the release of the Apple iPhone and BlackBerry, and having these two products take over the smartphone world, Microsoft has been a little behind with its smartphones. However, with the new release of the upcoming version of “Mango,” this will hopefully bring Microsoft into the forefront with its two main competitors. This new release plans to be unveiled before the 2011 Christmas season, which will help boost the advertising of the various devices it will be released with.
